Radiation Physics for Nuclear Medicine

✍ Scribed by Marie Claire Cantone, Christoph Hoeschen (auth.), Marie Claire Cantone, Christoph Hoeschen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The field of nuclear medicine is expanding rapidly, with the development of exciting new diagnostic methods and treatments relevant to a variety of diseases. This growth is closely associated with significant advances in radiation physics. In this book, acknowledged experts explain the basic principles of radiation physics in relation to nuclear medicine and examine important novel approaches in the field. The first section is devoted to what might be termed the "building blocks" of nuclear medicine, including the mechanisms of interaction between radiation and matter and Monte Carlo codes. In subsequent sections, radiation sources for medical applications, radiopharmaceutical development and production, and radiation detectors are discussed in detail. New frontiers are then explored, including the PET magnifying probe, improved algorithms for image reconstruction, biokinetic models, and voxel phantoms for internal dosimetry. Both trainees and experienced practitioners and researchers will find this book to be an invaluable source of up-to-date information.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Role of Radiation Physics in Nuclear Medicine....Pages 3-5
The Molecular Imaging Pathway to Biomedical Physics....Pages 7-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Mechanisms of the Interactions Between Radiation and Matter....Pages 15-34
Principles of Monte Carlo Calculations and Codes....Pages 35-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Sealed Radionuclide and X-Ray Sources in Nuclear Medicine....Pages 61-69
Radiopharmaceutical Production....Pages 71-103
Research and Development of New Radiopharmaceuticals....Pages 105-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Basic Principles of Detection of Ionizing Radiation Used in Medical Imaging....Pages 141-159
Scintillators and Semiconductor Detectors....Pages 161-174
New Trends in Detectors for Medical Imaging....Pages 175-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
The PET Magnifier Probe....Pages 195-209
Algorithms for Image Reconstruction....Pages 211-232
Biokinetic Models for Radiopharmaceuticals....Pages 233-255
Voxel Phantoms for Internal Dosimetry....Pages 257-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-285

✦ Subjects

Nuclear Medicine;Medical and Radiation Physics;Nuclear Chemistry